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This is addressed in the article: > The good news is electricity is getting cleaner. Since 2013, the world has been adding more electricity-generating capacity from wind and solar …

Well in 2014 they did finally repeal the rule that prevented the network hardware from being installed: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-approves-bill-allows-fi... Then they fi…

I'm not an economist either, but applying textbook theory from school, it could help. A lot depends on the size, and making sure it isn't too big to discourage employment. http://e…

> This is just a big lie thrown in my face! > please correct me if I'm wrong!!! You're wrong. Deflation is basic economics. If you take a college macroeconomics course it will be c…

They're planning to use AtScript to transpile to ES6 and Dart by extending the ES6 transpiler called Traceur (source: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1..…

Aha! Good call on the ByRef. Totally had forgot about that. Yeah, that was very important for correctness.

Hah. Or Tomas. Not sure. The S.L.E.Interpreter is after my time :)

Funny, I had something to do with this code back in the day! I'm guessing it was a copy+paste bug and they copied from the LambdaCompiler, which uses StrongBox for its closed-over …

Regarding performance: it will get much better once browser have implemented http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-shadow-dom-20140617/ . Shadow DOM is not easy to polyfill (especially beca…

Wow, seriously? I've been using Beta and not noticed any breakage (but that doesn't mean there isn't any). Do you have any more context?

disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of TypeScript and the folks working on it, but now work on Dart and JS stuff at Google, so I'm probably biased in all kinds of ways :) The way I like to …

fyi, I think most of my original complaints in that bug are either fixed, or largely mitigated. I don't think we've had any issues for over a year now (since Dart 1.0). I still wis…

That should work as of this week with Polymer's paper-elements: http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/material.html , available for Dart at https://github.com/dart-lang/pape…

> How well does Dart interact with JavaScript, especially libraries that are asynchronously loaded? I know that the Dart compiler is a whole-program optimizer, and I get the impres…

Chrome has certificate pinning, see http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu... : "In addition in Chromium 13, only a very small subset of CAs have the authorit…

> Maybe I'm just being a curmudgeon, but I think Google is playing the same 'embrace and extend' card as Microsoft did back in the day, just for slightly different reasons. I see t…

I think "confusing" in this context doesn't mean that the concepts are hard to enumerate or understand, it means they're hard to apply with low error rate in a practical setting. I…

yeah, if you're running directly on a VM for the language (e.g. JS on a JS engine, Dart on a Dart engine) you wouldn't need source maps for debugging, unless you are using some oth…

Yeah, tone can be hard to guess from text. Figured the link would be helpful either way :) disclaimer: I'm on the Dart team (libraries, not core language/VM/dart2js). As exciting a…

Yeah. It would be the same problem that WebSQL had: http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/ As much as I was sad to see it go, I sympathize with their problem. If you just have a single …

This is addressed in the FAQ: http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq#TOC-Is-this-just... http://www.chromium.org/blink#new-features Additionally: we have had experimental Dart…

> [...] he assumes the outrage by the high intensity users is proportional to the perceived value Right, that's the point. This is a common style in economic blogs. They often foll…

Oh please. Wanting someone held accountable for their negligence and overreach is not a "lynch mob".

Dart also has more sane operators (e.g. ==), no implicit conversions, no prototypes, types are not mutable, scopes are not mutable (including globals), a real integer type, lack of…

You can get the source code right from github: https://github.com/dart-lang/bleeding_edge